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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-09
Heavy Bank Failure in New brunswick

hVuNy f7Eh : dETWIt III NEW BTbhsWItk.
ST. JOHNS. \. b. March q-The Mari,
tine Bank Of Canada has suspended pay.
faent. with Liabilities of about 81 $50 600 A
commercial panic prevails, and several large
firms are reported as being on the verge Of
bankruptcy TIE Maritime hanks failure
is supposed to have heen precipitated by tn
collapse OF Samuel Sehofed, agent of TIL
faTaesS line OF steamers, who assigned with
LCavy liabilities through losses incurred in
aea. and lumber saInmenis 70 England
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-09

One Week and Saturday Matinee, commencing
MONDAY, MARCH Z,
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-09
a0CE ISLAND 4 PEDlIA
RAILW Az.
SHORTEST ROUTE TO TIE
EAST AND SOUTH
AND SOUTHEAST.

Trains leave Rock Island
go q. m. Way Freight
200 - Fsst Express
20 p IN. Mail and Express
1Ii Through Freight and Accommodation.
Trains arrive at Rock island
"a! q. m. Through Freight and Accommodate
40 p. III. NAL and Express.
$40 q Fast Express.
400 " Way Freight.
The FAST EXPRESS, leaving Rock island a. s y
N. arrives nj Peoria 1850 n. n. Indianapolis
$50 m, Springfield $50 = m, paryIuc n,
Alton Is p N. Trrrc Haute t. N, -. Louis
As , IN. Evansville % IN. Coiumhu= /. 70 q M
Nashville E IN. Making Close connections st
junction points for all eastern, southern ana south
eastern cities.
The mail and express leaving Rock Island at
81 p. m. arrives at Peoria 6 IN, Louisville
s III, Decatur 10 N, Tcrrr Ilautc So a
m, Dsnville Il 40 m, Evansville 9.15 n. in
Cinuati Is n m. Nashville 155 2 m
Express trains arl i've at and depart from UNION
DEPOT, PEORIA. making close connections with
fast trains all roads uIvcTCiU-.
G~FAST TINE. SURE CONNECTIONS. ar,
a es ~ low as by aHv other roHtc,
The i.15 p. m. Accommodation ltavH~ every Is,
except SUNDAY
Il. B. SUnLOW. +. Sr0tEHOT@E.
Superintendent. Gem TIT AZ.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-09
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.

Notice is hereby given that the firm of Trues-
dale & O'Connor is this day dissolved by mutual
troll of the business and will collect all out
standing debts and pay sll obligations OF the late
arm c, {, TREESDALE.
NJ 0'CoNS0R
Roek Island, March s. 1851
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-09

WANTED-A live, energetic man, to represent
W US, S15 per month and expenses; goods eta
pie. every one buys outfit and particulars FREE
sTAsDAkD stlNERWARE 90.
taB.iG.dr2m Brsqds
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

Beck. The country clam ored for it,
and the senate was standing in the
way of Its enactment
Beck demanded the yeas and nays
upon the passage of the bill, stating
that there was nothing in it he cared
much abont, but that the house OF
representatives might put something
in it, and he wanted to give the house
n chance.
The bill was then passod-yeas 80,
nays IA.
The senate, at 6:15, adjourned until
tomorrow.
The attorney bill, as it passed the
senate, reads as follows: That it shall
be unlawful for any member Of the
houses of congress to accept employ
ment as attorney at law, or payment
for any services Of any kind in oppo-
sition to the United States, in any
case to which the United States may
be party, or in which its interests
may be concerned, or from any rail
road company, if $, oh member shall
have reasonable cause to believe that
mea ures specially affecting the inter-
ests of such company are pending be-
fore congress, or are about TO be so
pending during his term of office.
Any person who violates the provis-
ions of this act shall be guilty OF n
misdemeanor, and may be punished
by Imprisonment not exceeding one
year or by fine not exceeding $500,
or by both. in the discretion of the
court.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05
CONGRESSIONAL.
FRIDAYS PROCEEDINGS.

HoUsE.-After some unimportant
routine business, the house went into
committee of the whole on the private
calendar, after which the house pro-
ceeded to dispose of n few private
bills coming over as unfinished busl-
ness from last Friday.
SENATE-After discussion of public
school accommodations in the District
of Columbia, and some routine bust
ness was disposed OF, the senate bill TO
credit and pay to the several States
and Territories and the District of
Columbia all monies collected under
the direct tax levied by the act of
March 8, 1861, was taken up.
Sherman advocated and explained
the bill. lie said it had been several
times recommended by the treasury
department, partly as an act of justice
and partly to relieve the department
OF legal complications. 1t referred to
tax of $20,000,000 imposed during
the war upon all States, North and
South. To those Northern States
which paid it promptly discount of
10 per cent had been allowed, but some
of those States did not pay promptly
and since the war some of it
had been collected from some
of the Southern States. Charges for
the quota due by the Southern
States stood against the books OF the
treasury, and amounts due to them
from the treasury could not be paid
while these charges stood there. ur-
der these circumstances three or four
secretaries of the treasury had recon-
mended that out of the overlooking
treasury there be paid back TO the
states the amount received from them,
and that other states be credited with
their share of the tax. The bill was
manifestly just. Ii had been uniform
erly recommended by the treasury de-
partment. and had been UNANIMOUSLY
recommended by the committee on fl
nanca. The amount 10 be refunded
would be about $l5.000,000.
The moneys under the provisions of
this act, to be paid to their respective
governors; provided that where taxes
have been collected from citizens, Ell
Their dil Getty or by the sale of proper
ty, the amount shall be held in trust
for them or their legal representatives
by the respective states.
The senate then resumed considera-
ton of the Beck railroad attorney bill.
vote was then taken on Hoar's
amendment, OF substitute, for the
original bill. The amendment was
agreed to-yeas Is, nays 81.
Then followed some parliamentary
mancnvers, offering and voting on
amcndments With considerable dis
cussion. more or less heated. 4,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05
Manuscripts and Copyists.

The writers of manuscripts among
the Hebrews were savants, commenta-
tors on the holy writ, rabbis endowed
with special habitation among the
Greeks and Romans, slaves who were
to their masters what well filed book
case is to wooden spoon; Calvisius
Sabinus, mentioned by Seneca, having
paid the exorbitant sum OF 800, 900
scsterces (about $50, 000) for eleven
slaves, each one of whom could recite
Greek poem, faculty that would not
have enabled them to hold candle 10
Joseph Scaliger, who had Learned by
heart the ''lliad' and Odyssey" in
twenty-o ne days, or to Christian Ohem-
nitus, who knew the bible so wed that
he could tell the chapter and verse OF
any quotation that might be made from
it. Besides slaves, there were in Rome,
also, professional copyists who were
freed men, and others FOREIGNERS these
mostly Greeks, who, though they were
the Gascons of antiquity Tor their fine
talking, could lay claim to the credit of
having created the art OF Illuminating
manuscripts. The great edict of Do
cletian on the maximum tabalated
the price paid to copyists, but the great
edict of Diocletian. rs it comes to us,
has "a good measure. pressed down
and running over of information that
is not wanted, and would provoke
saint in search of knowledge. IL only
tells that the scribe's work was valued
by the hundred lines AS il needed at
tention to detail, and was one to put
ones heart into, there were women
copyists. Gruter has been to the pains
of publishing a Latin inscription 10 tell
II, and the Hebdomads of Varro, an IL
lustrated biography that is ut the point
of the pen of everyone who writes Of
manuscripts, was the work OF woman,
Lala, who had come from Asia Minor.
In the middle ages the copyist did his
work as penance. and Thedoric liked 10
tell the monks Of his abbey that friar
had gone to heaven for having copied
volume containing one letter more thaH
the number of his sins. Antiquarians
are in accord on the point that the old
est manuscript extant is not older than
the third century. according 10 Mont
faucon. Aulus Gelius had seen manu-
script of the "Ened.n and Quintilian
tells of manuscripts that he bad seen Of
Cicero and Cato and Censor. and Ven
ice claims that IL possesses the original
manuscript of the gospel Of ST. Mark,
and the British museum has q Greek
copy Of the evangelsts thati attributed
TO St Thecla, one Of ST. Paufs virgin
converts; but the weight Of evidence y
rather in favor of Father Hapdouin's
absurdity. that our so-called classics.
with three exceptions, are the works OF
monks Of the thirteenth century.
Art 1m0feur.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05
Migratory numaRS.

II has remained for tke American
civilization of the nineteenth csntury
to develop the genius tramp. that mi
gratory human whose fight 70 the
South car be gambled on 10 certain
ty rs u forerunner of cold weather
When winter puts on his ulster and
begins to do song and dance on the
heart of the great lakes, the tramp
takes out n Crosstie Il Great sOuthern
railroad ticket (unlimited) catches on
to brake-beam sleeping berth, and
turns his face toward the Gulf of Next
co. He humpeth himself like drOme-
dairy, and lingereth not by the road
side to toy with the rural woodpile,
but hastens on with switness that
causes a note in bank to grow exceed
ingly weary.
That is the only time thai a tramp
does any thing swiftly, except to get
over fence to avoid the yard dog.
But when old winter sticks an eicle
down the collar of the summer tramp
he has sudden yearning to 60 down
and rest under the orange trees OF
Florida-and he goeth.
Tramps generally follow the lines Of
railroads as the most direct, running
through the most ihiOkly populated
districts. and then as aflording an
opportunity for an occasional lift.
They have long since learned how
chilled steel is the heart of freight
conductor, and what eloqRenoe of
eXpostulation his boot-toc possesses,
and their sensitive, shrinking natures
recoil ut thoughts of the brutal refusal
that will meet an humble petition, and
sneak into a box-car.
1t is surprising to note the number
of able bodied men who tramp-great,
stout, hulking fellows, who are physi-
cally able of doing hard days work
without any inconvenience. And The
hardihood they show in stealing q ride
on brake-beam amid the sitting dust
that is whirled up under the cars
should stand them in good need ii
shown in an earnest search for work.
In Winchester county, New York,
the board of supervisors providing for
the addition of n wing 70 the aims
house which should be especially pro-
vided for tramps. The apartments
are so arranged that they can be food
ed to the depth of six feet A tramp
is put in, provided with bucket, and
the water turned on. He has to bail or
be drowned. And just about the time
he pours out the first bwketful the
hole in the wall freezes solid and he
has to kick it out. The scheme is al
most as good as rock pile or saw
and cord of wood TO cure tranps of
disposition to stop asd rest their
weary limbs. - NashUlle (Tenn. Onion.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05
nuckIen's ArnIcss aIve.

The best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises. Sores, UlcerA Salt Bheum,
Fever Sores, letter Chapped Hands,
.Clilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
lions. and positively cures piles or no
rav required. II IL guaranteed 70 give
<crfect satisfaction or money refunded.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

The joint resolution amending
the constitution so as to- prohibit
officers of corporations from being
members Of either branch of the
legislature was defeated
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05
HARRIET LANE JOHNSON is &C urss-
den for the winter.

1t is said that Senator Malone will
60 into railroad building and manage
ment when he retircs from public life
on March 4.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

LEWIS II. STANTON, the only surviv-
ing son Of the war secretary, is visit
ing in Washington for the first time in
several years.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

THE interstate commerce bill has
been signed by the president and is
now law.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

OF the next Connecticut senate the
Oldest senator will be f. H. Hyde of
Stafford-74-and the youngest, Scna-
tor Thomas II. Allen of Spragus-24
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

EAST DALLAS is one of the Invest,
handsomcst cities in Texas.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

THE Texarkana Times is correct
in its recollection that the HERAsD
favored Gov. Ross nomination.
Tho HERAsD has been strong
friend Of Gov. Ross, and the writer
an advocate of his nomination from
the time his name was first pro-
posed. And when the HERALD
suggested that the Times would
ere long condemn Gov. Ross, it
was not with q thought that there
il or will be any thing in Gov.
Ross administration which should
be condemned; but because of the
usual, we might say natural, result
of such Incorporate, weak and
silly praise as that given by the
Times. Such natures are easily
and usually reversed, and nevspa-
pers, while not natural, are intlu-
enced by natura. +--. There's
another paper III Texas whose ex-
cessive fulsome praise of Gov.
Ross through the canvass was such
an approach to hero worship that
Americans and even the object of
the favor could but disapprove of
it. And in disappearing of this
particular style, the HERAsD would
not be understood as bein: any
thing elae han !. firm friend and
admirer OF Gov. ;Sus,
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

AILUpING to Gov. Ross message,
the Examiner says he talks horse talk
Horse talk is silence.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

The buoket.shop bill has passed to
engrossment by the state senate.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

THE Waco Advance is certainly
full of self-confidence and self-im-
portance with a full measure Of
self-interest to back it. After de-
claring that the Texas Baptist and
Herald needed an editor, it pro-
ceeds to do up the secular press Of
Texas in the following extrava-
CANT, erratic and foolish section of
long editorial
The liquor men have at their comand
already press pledged in advance to
fight their battles. There is not daily
paper in Texas thBt is not at this very
moment so pledged. An large num-
Der of the respective weekly journals
will stand in with the liquor power
This is most apparent blunder,
not to use a harsher term. Fur
Their on in the same article, Gran
fill declares that "the reason why
the temperance cause does not i'm
prove or succeed is that its advo-
Gates pray when they should pay
There is much truth in this; but
Cranfill being an interested party,
might well let others put forward
the suggestion lest some daily pa
per might remark that, putting this
and that together, it is evident
that Cranfll is a prohibitionist for
revenue only.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

SEVERAL of the leading journals in
York state outside of the city, have
agreed to advance their yearly subscrip-
tons 81. A Buffalo paper was the first
to make the raise.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

Old lady TO clerk): Have you gentle
mems eloves'
Clerk (elanc'ne al khe Cd lady
1.z..l YES. "a An y, t5Iek ".
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

Single copy OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES w
For advertising rates apply at the office.
EAST DALLAS is one of the Invest,
handsomest cities in Texas.
THE buck shop bill has passed to
engrossment by the state senate.
THE interstate commerce bill has
been signed by the president and IS
now law.
ALLUp1NG to Gov. Ross message,
the Examiner says he talks horse talk
Horse talk is silence.
SENATOR SInKINs' bill for the or
ganization of geological survey is
good one and should pass.
SECRETARY MANNING and Treasur-
or Jordan have rendered their resig-
nations and will go into the banking
business.
PRoF. REESE need not be very cI-
pert clairvoyant to tell just how many
shekels the average newspaper man
has in his pocket. Nix.
.JoUN II. LONG, of Britton Il Long,
has been arrested at Ell Paso on an in
dictment growing out Of the cele-
brated court house swindle.
THE legislative committee OF the
knights of Labor at Springfield ILL.,
have requested the president to veto
tbc interstate commerce bill.
The Paris News remarks thai:
"Gen. Maxey, even if he has been de-
feated for senator, can get along. On
the s0th of next month he will be 81
wears old. at which time he will be ell
titled TO So month as Mexican war
veteran
The amendment prohibiting the
sale Of intoxicating liquors will GER
tainly be submitted to the people by
the present legislature. The governor
recommends its submission, the lower
house has passed it by vote of 80 to
81, and il will no doubt pass the senate.
TIE Knights of Labor joining with
railroad presidents in opposing the
interstate commerce bill sffords us a
fine example of the folly of prejudice
or something else.--Fort Worth
Mail.
The point in the above is obscured
in the failure yet 10 show that the
interstate commerce bill was opposed
by the railroad presidents.
TEE removal of the Advance from
Gatesville to Waco, necessarily in
yolved removal of its editor, DIR.
Cranfill, from village to town, and the
doctor takes whole column editorial
to show that no e feels his keepin'."
In another editorial, much shorter, he
shows, too, what he hasn't learned
about religious journalism. He says
The Texas Baptist and Herald has
two editors, two associate editors and
a field editor-five in all-and still 1t
needs an editor, and that's fact.
The Texas Baptist and Herald is re-
garded by the Baptists of the State
(and some Methodists, as for that
mai,er.) as an ably conducted church
paper. But if there is need of an
editor, why don't Cranfill apply for
the position!
The Joint resolution amending
the constitution so as to- prohibit
officers of corporations from being
members of either branch of the
legislature was defeated
BuckIen's Arnics faive.
The best salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises. Sores, Ulcers, Salt Bheum,
Fever Sores, letter Chapped Hands,
CliIblains, Corns, and all skin brup-I
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

LIEUT.. WILLIAM II. EMORY, who has
been assigned to the command Of the
United States steamer Thetis, was COM
mander of the Bear, one of the Greedy re-
lief expedition, and pushed the vessel
through the icc-packs in advance of all
the other vessels. Notwithstanding the
fact that the whalers had the stimulus
of the $4,000 reward offered by the
goYernment
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

SENATOR SIMKINs' bill for the or
ganization of a geological survey is a
good one and should pass.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

GEORGE NJ BARTHOLOMEW, the
Hartford. Conn, defaulter, is spend
ing the winter at Quebec, and the set
Element of his affairs seems to be as far
off as ever. He is said to have very
little of his own money left, but his
friends see that he wants for nothing.
There is no definite knowledge of how
much his creditors will realize.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

The cost of introducing "A girl into
society in New York and carrying her
successfully through one season is esti
mated at 81, sos, of which all but $3.50
IS for wearing apparel.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

Mr.. GLADSTONE was paid 81, $50 for
his article on Lord Tennyson's poem,
"Lockesly Hall; or, Sixty Years Az
ter" which still continues to form one
of the chief topics of conversation in
London. The price was the largest
ever paid in England for so short an
essay.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

Mr.. GLApsToHE's birthday gifts in
cluded, among other things, a red kerr
chief for his neck, at least dozen bot
ties of his favorte jam. one mutton and
three mince pies and box of pills, the
last-named from the husband of the
woman who forwarded the mutton pie.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

The divorced wife of ex-senator
Fair. TO whom the courts gave four
millions and half from her ex-hus-
bands estate, can not find places
enough for the interest on her money,
and is rapidly adding to that sum.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

The Comte de Paris has placed the
rife range of the park at Eu at the
disposition Of the garrison of that
place. His kinsman, Count de Char
tres, recently gave his demesne of
Chantllly, worth 100000 francs, to
the republic, to prove his patriotism.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

In Shasta, Cal, one day recently,
justice of the peace fined citizen S45
for misconduct. 81 won't pay il"
said the man. "Will you pay STOP"
demanded the justice. NO" by
Cad, then. give me five" pleaded the
justice, but the delinquent swore he
wouldn't pay cent, and he didn't,
and that was the end of it.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

THERE is house in Philadelphia that
has been standing for 250 years. 1t
was built before Penn obtained his
charter, end is one story high, with an
Immense roof. The walls, made of
stone, are two feet thick, and the oaken
doors are large and heavy.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

SECRETARY MANNING and Ireasur-
or Jordan have rendered their resig-
nations and will go into the banking
business.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

AN eminent Psychologist declares it
IS nonsense to claim that the pyramids
Of Egypt were long in construction.
Three or four years, he believes, suf-
feed for the building Of the highest of
them.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-05

PRoF. REESE need not be a very oI-
pert clairvoyant to tell just how many
shekels the average newspaper man
has in his pocket. Nix.
Martinsburg gazette. (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1886-1887, 1887-03-04
Homing Pigeons.

The public, writes New York CORE.
spondent Of the Troy Times, isbut little
aware Of the wide and increasing atten.
ton devoted to homing pigeons, and
hence brief paragraph on the subject
may be acceptable. There are seyeral
societies Or ssfederationsn las they are
called) thus engaged, and the Executive
Committee Of the New York pigeon fly.
crs recently held an important meeting.
one Of the objects IS to form congress:
Of pigeon flyers. and . constitution and
bylaws arc to be prepared for the next
annual meeting In Philadelphia there
IL an extensive association called the
limited Fanciers Of Pigeon Flying.
Another association has been formed ~
Boston, and others are now exnected IN
various parts Of the country The use
of carrier pigeons is Of great antiquity.
being mentioned by Anacreon, wh0lived
i. 500 years ago. and Tasso also bring:
then, into the defense Of Jerusalem. The
ordinary time made BY those birds !.
thirty miles an hour. but instances are on
record Of thrice that rate. The culture
Of homing pigeons isnow tas some say
only beginning, and far greater attain
ments are expected by American fan
ciers.